I am considering getting a windows phone and I'm wondering if anyone has one that they use for geocaching. I assume that there is a geocaching app, but I have never used it or spoken to anyone who has so I am throwing it out there. Any thoughts on the windows phone for caching?

I have a droid, and use neongeo. It is a better app than groundspeaks app, and less money. I don't cache much with a phone because I find the gps too slow, plus many places I caches do not get phone coverage.

I have seen this statement a few times and I find it confusing.
A phone with a GPS chip should be receiving its position information from the GPS satellites. Phone coverage should be a don't care assuming the cache data is saved for offline usage. That has been my experience with the iPad and iPhone - you can turn the data plan off and the GPS has the same accuracy (8ft).

I do have an iPad that doesn't have a GPS chip - that has to be connected to have any idea where it is but its accuracy is not good (200ft+)

I have seen this statement a few times and I find it confusing.
A phone with a GPS chip should be receiving its position information from the GPS satellites. Phone coverage should be a don't care assuming the cache data is saved for offline usage. That has been my experience with the iPad and iPhone - you can turn the data plan off and the GPS has the same accuracy (8ft).

I do have an iPad that doesn't have a GPS chip - that has to be connected to have any idea where it is but its accuracy is not good (200ft+)

Maybe it's a holdover from old phones. My old one used triangulation from cell phone towers to approximate position. When I was in Key West with all the towers in a straight line, the geocaching app showed an accuracy of one mile. : ) In the metro it would usually get close enough to find easy caches.

That said, if you customarily use your phone for paperless caching like I do it's a real horror to get to some area and not have coverage. That happened to me when I drove down to Faribault for one of the Gauntlets! No coordinates! I decided to hike anyway and when I stopped for lunch that place had signal so I was able to do the cache. Learned my lesson, now I print when I'm going on a mission, or download the caches into the Garmin.

I will use my Oregon most of the time, but just want an app for when I don't have a certain cache loaded in my PQ or when I am travelling. I just want an app that will work, it doesn't have to be perfect. From looking at the gc forums it looks like the windows apps are okay, but the android apps are much better.

I have the geocaching app on my iphone. I rarely use it to point me to a cache, but use it instead for caching an area I wasn't prepared for. The vast majority of time I have my Oregon along so I manually load the numbers in those cases.

I have seen this statement a few times and I find it confusing.
A phone with a GPS chip should be receiving its position information from the GPS satellites. Phone coverage should be a don't care assuming the cache data is saved for offline usage. That has been my experience with the iPad and iPhone - you can turn the data plan off and the GPS has the same accuracy (8ft).

I do have an iPad that doesn't have a GPS chip - that has to be connected to have any idea where it is but its accuracy is not good (200ft+)

I have yet to see a phone that is true GPS. They all use the cell towers to triangulate your location. Prove it to your self, go into a building with a GPS. You won't get a signal. Your GPS phone will and it won't put you in the correct place. Go out side to a cell phone dead zone, your GPS phone won't work period but your GPS unit will. I have an android and it will place me 300 feet off. Unless there are lots of towers near.

I have seen this statement a few times and I find it confusing.
A phone with a GPS chip should be receiving its position information from the GPS satellites. Phone coverage should be a don't care assuming the cache data is saved for offline usage. That has been my experience with the iPad and iPhone - you can turn the data plan off and the GPS has the same accuracy (8ft).

I do have an iPad that doesn't have a GPS chip - that has to be connected to have any idea where it is but its accuracy is not good (200ft+)

I have yet to see a phone that is true GPS. They all use the cell towers to triangulate your location. Prove it to your self, go into a building with a GPS. You won't get a signal. Your GPS phone will and it won't put you in the correct place. Go out side to a cell phone dead zone, your GPS phone won't work period but your GPS unit will. I have an android and it will place me 300 feet off. Unless there are lots of towers near.

My Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx contains a GPS chip inside. If it doesn't then Motorola is lying in the documentation and the OS is programmed around a lie.